The history of free trade agreements has not been kind to the western world and I’m not happy that Canada has jumped onto this potential disaster.  I understand the concept of free trade and in theory it sounds wonderful but the TPP bits that have come out sound like a huge giveaway to large corporations (hello, companies suing countries for lost profits if they impose new laws…) and will not benefit Canada.  Thankfully here it requires the approval of parliament so it’s still possible to stop this mess.  Not sure if they can ram this through in the lame duck session after the federal election though.

I guess history will tell us if this new free trade pact will be beneficial to everyone or just companies and the countries with lower cost labour.